Games that you really want to like but you just can't

[№56]

Also if you and @№56 found The Witness frustrating or boring, you should check out The Looker as it's a perfect parody of the game. It's free and only 1-2 hours long so not that painful of a game to pick up and play either.

The Looker is one of the funniest games I've ever played, the ending had me laughing like an idiot. One of these days I want to give The Witness another shot for the aesthetics alone, although I'm kind of stupid when it comes to puzzle games and will probably end up using a guide.

 

[BlackControlBoxer]

Everything that has ASCII graphics, i tried them, but the lack of any actual visuals just really doesn't do it for me, that's why i always preffered rimworld over dwarf fortress, or zomboid over CDDA, is not like i haven't played them, i just don't find them enjoyable.

ADOMs graphical version blows the ASCII version outta of the water

The Official Ancient Domains Of Mystery (ADOM) Homepage

Ancient Domains Of Mystery (ADOM for short) is a roguelike game created by Thomas Biskup. It emphasizes story depth, full immersion in a fantastic world, a wide variety of professions, items and skills and many different quests. Its successor Ultimate ADOM is made with Unity and will be released...

www.adom.de

 

[HammerKoopa]

physical pad rhythm games
i've tried pump it up and ddr a couple of times but i never really got hooked on them in the same way i got hooked on keyboard-centric games like osu!mania or Quaver. the differing playstyle just feels like a gimmick and heavily limits the kinds of charts can play. forget about chordjack, handstream or vibro. on top of that, the relative inaccessibility (my nearest arcade is over 4 kilometers away and i don't have a car or much money to burn on arcade credit) makes it harder for me to get into too and really makes me question how dedicated players can afford to practice for hours a day.

anyways play vivid/stasis or something

For me its the exact opposite, i like physical pad rhythm games even if me playing experience is limited due to only counting with a dancemat and a PS1 emulator due to me preference for the old DDR games.
Even so when trying to get into keyboard or mouse centric rhythm games i dont find the same enjoyment, i've tried osu! many times and i remember trying to hop on the FnF hype train before its corpse got ravaged by zoomers while newgrounds sat on the cuck-chair and they just doesnt feel as nice and intuitive as left-up-down-right from where you are currently standing, i just cant get the same exictment either and honestly i feel like a complete jackass sitting there with headphones on trying to do finger-yoga to the beat

 

[Doctor Dirck]

The only times I've ever fallen asleep playing a video game, is in Fallout 4's bog DLC, and in Civ 6

I've also only fell asleep twice during a videogame and the first time was Vampyr and the second was the future segment of Chrono Trigger

 

[EtherealMan]

Still pissed off about Tiny Tina's Wonderland. Judge me all you want but I loved BL3 (I'm not a story gamer, didn't pay much attention to the shit writing). The gameplay was tight as fuck and it just felt so right to play.

Fast forward a few years, Tiny Tina's Wonderland is announced. I like her character so naturally I'm excited. The new weapon concepts and landscapes look cool, something new. So as soon as it's out, I get it.

My immediate thought as it starts off is 'OK, little bit of a rough beginning. That's the case with a lot of games, it's fine'. I keep playing. I still have a mildly bad taste. I keep playing. Taste gets worse. The characters are really annoying. Especially that one edgy dude who's also at the game table. The voice acting is a little whack but not awful. Just not very... convincing. OK, the writing is fucking off. Worse than Borderlands 3. I get that this is supposed to be childlike and whimsical, but even then it's badly written. So bad that even I can't ignore it. This wouldn't be a turn off normally, but it's too 'there' to be able to ignore. What's more, the gunplay is jank at the start and doesn't get a whole lot better. So I can't even enjoy that too much. The ideas are cool but needed polish. It's just... Odd. Stopped playing around halfway through because I just couldn't bear it anymore. It all got way too grating for me. Good ideas, either watered down to complete mediocrity or executed badly. Still can't get the voice acting out of my head.

Attached: The annoying fucker that made my ears bleed with every line of dialogue.

 

[RisingThumb]

Still pissed off about Tiny Tina's Wonderland. -snip-

Yeah I played Tiny Tina's Wonderland too when it was on sale for cheap. Maybe it's me, but I think ever since BL2, they've been trying to top what they made, but everything since then has just been worse.

iirc, they use yellow paint a lot for marking where to go since they don't trust their players, but back in BL2, they had a lot more trust and faith in players to the point of grinding out legendary items from specific bosses and to figuring things out like their LOTR easter egg.

Then again Gearbox is known for fucking things up. Even though HL Opposing force was good, gearbox somehow fucked their relations with valve. Everything Gearbox touches typically turns to shit. It's like reverse Midas touch

 

[Ardea]

Minecraft, I enjoy building machines etc but once it's all done and you've basically automated everything it becomes boring. Kinda like in life. Without a challenge, it's meaningless. Your best hope in minecraft is to build your own bugworld.

 

[Halico]

EVE sounds like it would be a blast, don't even have to try it to know it's way out of my league in both time and mental capacity, imagine being the leader of a space pirate crew or CEO of a transport company, surely an experience to remember.

 

[RisingThumb]

EVE sounds like it would be a blast, don't even have to try it to know it's way out of my league in both time and mental capacity, imagine being the leader of a space pirate crew or CEO of a transport company, surely an experience to remember.

You've probably had this recommendation before, but check out Elite Dangerous. Not as much time commitment needed, but still requires a bit of mental capacity. Some people bounce off of it quickly as it's a 6 DOF game which can be difficult.

A good example of it being chill is doing space trucking :D

 

[Halico]

You've probably had this recommendation before, but check out Elite Dangerous. Not as much time commitment needed, but still requires a bit of mental capacity. Some people bounce off of it quickly as it's a 6 DOF game which can be difficult.

A good example of it being chill is doing space trucking :D

ohhh is that the game where the first iteration had like a really cool secret or something? Like they discovered it 20 years after the first came out or something.
Will check nonetheless, looks pretty nice!

 

[Venomshake]

Drakengard 1. I enjoy the heavy dark fantasy/Seinen themes of the story and the soundtrack which displays the blood-thirsty and insanity of the main character Caim. However, the combat is terrible and boring, even for a Musou game in which there are better examples such at the time like Berserk: Millennium Falcon for the PS2. The only redeeming part of the combat would be the in-the-sky missions but even those become boring after awhile. Still, I enjoy the other parts of Drakengard 1 compared to 2 and 3, it also brought the Nier timeline.

 

[Sketch Relics]

Yume Nikki

Interesting as the art is I'm unable to be drawn in by the exploration since just walking around is mechanically uninteresting to me.

 

[TheGr8Whoopdini]

Europa Universalis IV. Way too abstracted, "gamey", and un-dynamic for my Grand Strategy genre tastes—I'm in it for immersive, yet accessible, simulation on a grand scale. Luckily EUV will feature Pops and a real economy. Victoria 3 will have to hold me over until then, and it too has a long way to go, though it's getting way better with each major patch.

 

[Dead Star]

System Shock 2

The weapon breakage system makes this game unfun compared to the first. So many times you'll kill a respawning enemy, they drop a shotgun or something and the weapon only lasts a few shots before breaking (or it's already broken). It's not fun running around relying on the wrench as your main weapon.

 

[Math Equal Angelic Mantra]

Earthbound. Maybe is was novel back in the day, but the heckin' quirky self awareness of it just annoys me since that sort of thing has been run into the ground for well over a decade now. I'll never know if Mother 3 is worth all the hype and worth literally crying over.

 

[Sidewinder91]

I'll never know if Mother 3 is worth all the hype and worth literally crying over.

In my opinion...? Not really.

If you don't like Earthbound's quirk, you probably aren't going to like 3's.

 

[pressC4caius]

For me it's the Pathologic series, it has some really interesting character design and i am intrigued by the entire concept. But i just can't figure out the gameplay loop which as i understand is very intentional, granted i have only tried to play pathologic 2. I've tried 3 times and drop it after an hour or two. From my understanding and from what i've heard the game is meant to be intentionally confusing and obtuse and this all plays into the overall narrative. Unfortunately i am a raging TROGLODYTE and will be forced to miss out on what apparently is a very interesting experience, and it is one of my great personal tragedies

 

[Dolfin]

Adding Palworld to this list because no one on Steam has my specific complaint about it. The trailers and gameplay clips are pretty wild—using a sheep-ball as a living shield against gunfire! off-brand Pokémon working in a sweatshop building guns!—and I like open world survival craft. But when I was the one beating small cartoon cats over the head with a stick in the name of friendship, it left a bad taste in my mouth. What really pushed me over the line was unlocking the baseball bat and seeing its baked-on dried blood texture.
Conan Exiles gets away with it because it's Conan.

 

[Emmy Fitz]

Fallout 3 or 4.

From what I've tried, Bathesda RPGs really just don't do much for me. I've played a couple of hours of Skyrim and that has given me a decent sense of adventure and exploration that I want. Morrowind aesthetically is really cool and is genuinely impressive when you're just walking around, but I can't get passed all the walls of text and clunkiness. Fallout New Vegas is decent, but then I found out it wasn't Bathesda in house lol

Elder Scrolls' world feels like I wanna dig deeper and explore more, but idk the Fallout universe's purposefully barren and delapidated landscapes feel so dry imo. I can't get into it aesthetically and I've tried Fallout 3 and 4 multiple times.

 

[LuxuriaOfDesire]

My immediate answer is Lobotomy Corporation. I

As soon as i saw lobotomy corperation I kinda knew where that post was going. The game is hell, janky and unfair (if you SUCK), researching abnormalities always leads to several deaths and you have to replay the entire game 3-4 times to reach the end. Oh also 80 hours an underestimate of how long the game takes to finish. So far I'm at 120 hours and i'm almost nearing the end. It's been a trial of suffering and frustration but eventually, I will finish it. Right now i'm stuck on the day 46? realization, i'm taking a break after all my employees got infected by melting love kek. The thing is that, if you don't mind the cheey dialouge, the game has one of the most impactful stories out of all the games i've ever played. The gameplay works to boost the themes of the story and ties everything together almost perfectly.

As for me and a game which I want to like. There is this game called AST libra which is said to have an amazing story, but like, its hook just really doesn't do it for me.
Iiiii, kinda don't care about playing as some generic JRPG protag. If the game's story introduction isn't something a emo would like then well, yk, lets just say.... I'm an emo.